moil /ˈmɔɪ(ə)l/
 (vi.)辛勞工作,忙碌工作,不斷動搖辛苦,勞苦,費勁


 Moil v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moiled p. pr. & vb. n. Moiling.]  To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
    Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.   --Spenser.


 Moil, v. i.  To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
    Moil not too much under ground.   --Bacon.
    Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.   --Dryden.


 Moil, n. A spot; a defilement.
    The moil of death upon them.   --Mrs. Browning.

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 moil
      v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
           "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour,
            toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig]
      2: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: churn,
          boil, roil]
      3: moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"